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1. Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation making California the first state in the nation to ban the routine use of antibiotics in livestock, the Bay Area News Group$ reports. The new law is designed to stem the proliferation of so-called “super-bugs,” antibiotic resistant bacteria that thrive on factory farms and kill an estimated 23,000 Americans a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Starting in 2018, agribusinesses in California will be prohibited from routinely injecting healthy livestock with antibiotics.

4. Anyone who obtains a California driver’s license or state-issued identification will automatically be registered to vote in the state, under a new law signed by the governor, the SacBee$ reports. Residents who do not want to be registered to vote will have to opt out at the DMV.